Marcel Martel: 3 books

Drugs are part of every society, consumed for ritual or religious purposes, for pleasure, to enhance athletic performance, or as a means to relieve pain. Throughout the twentieth century, however, an arbitrary and shifting distinction was made between legal drugs that were prescribed and administered...

Chapter 4: No Longer Vices: Call Them Health Issues, 1920 to the Present Marcel Martel Vices came to be known by different names. Although Churches, police forces, and fellow citizens continued to condemn those who transgressed “normal” behaviours, transgressions were now often diagnosed...

July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada's Confederation - the date that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation encompassing ten provinces, three territories, and hundreds of First Nations, its leaders repeatedly debated...